Acting U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is resigning, according to multiple U.S. media reports. Wolf said in a letter to department employees on Monday that he was stepping down due to “recent events” and had originally intended to serve until the end of Donald Trump’s administration, Fox News...
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English Premier League champions Liverpool will face Manchester United in a blockbuster FA Cup tie after the draw for the fourth round was made on Monday. The two teams will face off at Old Trafford on the weekend of Jan. 23. Holders Arsenal will go to Southampton, if they win their third-round match...
A Ugandan soldier opened fire, killing two fellow soldiers, a Policeman and a civilian before he was shot dead by colleagues, the military said on Monday. The serviceman, identified as Omara Denis Awilo, opened fire on his colleagues, killing two local Defense unit personnel, the policeman and a civilian...
International creditors, under the Paris Club, said on Monday it approved a six-month long debt relief scheme for Kenya, under a new arrangement backed by the Group of 20 (G20) most advanced economies. “This initiative will also contribute to help the Republic of Kenya to improve debt transparency and...
The mediator of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for Mali, former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, at the head of a high-level delegation, arrived in Bamako on Monday afternoon, official sources told PANA. The two-day visit is a follow-up on the Conference of ECOWAS Heads of State...
A further 36 positive tests were reported by the 20 English Premier League clubs between Jan. 4 and Sunday. A total of 27 of the tests came between January 4 and Thursday, with 10 more coming between Friday and Sunday, the Premier League said in a statement. The 36...
South Africans are paying tribute to tech entrepreneur, Elon Musk, who has overtaken Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person. Musk, who was born and raised in Pretoria, is now worth more than US$188 billion, US$1.5 billion more than Bezos after shares in his Tesla Motors firm soared...
Officials and other guests have been invited to “celebrations” arranged to mark the ongoing 8th Congress of the Workers Party of Korea (WPK), Pyongyang’s media reported on Tuesday. The invitation to the celebrations raises the possibility that Pyongyang might be preparing to hold a military parade. On Monday, Seoul’s...
Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun says the government is working to purchase additional Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines of a different platform to better ensure safe inoculation of the public. Chung said this on Tuesday during an interagency meeting on the COVID-19 response held at the government complex in Sejong, 120 kilometers...
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced an article of impeachment against outgoing President Donald Trump on Monday, as Republicans blocked a measure calling on Vice President Pence to remove his boss from office. The single impeachment article charges Trump with incitement of insurrection. It accuses him of...
Concerns are mounting about the health of lawmakers and other people in the Capitol last week, after the first member to test positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19) since Wednesday’s chaos, said she believed she was exposed in a crowded hiding place with hundreds of other legislators. Rep. Bonnie Watson...
There will be no public access to the Capitol grounds during Joe Biden’s inauguration as U.S. president on Jan. 20, acting Capitol Police chief Yogananda Pittman said. Pittman took over the leadership from Steven Sund after he stepped down amid criticism of the force’s handling of rioters who breached...
Entrepreneurship was a blessing in the 19th century as people started taking initiatives to solve problems which create value that attract financial reward, this action really solved a lot of problem and really influenced established industries to incorporate entrepreneurship into their businesses, hence the emergence of intrapreneurship: entrepreneurship within...
Mrs Rita Okungbowa, who appeared before the Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry for victims of SARS and related abuses, has told the panel how she had not seen her husband for eight years, since he was arrested by the disbanded operatives. She said that SARs operatives had invaded their...
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Monday commenced a two-day training on saving lives for its staff in Kano. Declaring the training open, the Director-General, NEMA, AVM Muhammadu Mohammed, said it was in line with the policy and guidelines of NEMA to ensure competence of its staff, to...
The pioneer Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Nasarawa, Mr Polycarp Azige, is dead.The Chairman of PDP in the state, Mr Francis Orogu, confirmed Azige’s demise to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lafia.He said that Azige, also a former Nigerian Ambassador to Sierra Leone,...
A Catholic Priest, Rev. Fr. Damian Anyaoha, on Monday charged journalists in the country not to entertain fears in performing their lawful duties of reporting the truth.Anyaoha made the call at the annual thanksgiving service organised by the Abia Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Umuahia.He...
The Eastern Naval Command of the Nigerian Navy has inaugurated a multi-million Naira housing projects in Calabar as one of its ways of boosting the morale of its personnel in the fight against security challenges in the country. Speaking on Monday in Calabar, the Chief of the Naval Staff,...
Ms Bunmi Jimoh, the newly appointed Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the National Theatre, has promised to bring her experience to bear in the management’s vision of redeeming image of the performing arts centre. Jimoh told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos that she would...